From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
Cc: 27982@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:53:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2wotz6i.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw1lkjt8.fsf@members.fsf.org> (message from Nicolas Richard on Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:38:32 +0200)
> From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2017 13:38:32 +0200
>
> The docstring of expand-file-name suggest
> (directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname))
> to traverse a directory
No, it only suggests that as a more reliable alternative to
(expand-file-name ".." dirname)
> This looks wrong to me, e.g.
> (list current-directory
> (directory-file-name (file-name-directory current-directory)))
> => ("/home/youngfrog/" "/home/youngfrog")
This is not the use case against which the doc string tries to warn,
Thanks.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-06 11:38 bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem Nicolas Richard
2017-08-06 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-23 12:18 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-08-23 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-23 19:18 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-08-24 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-30 15:43 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-09-02 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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